Why haven’t American technology journalists reported the truth about the working conditions at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China – a 430,000 person factory that manufactures around 50% of all the personal communications devices used in America? Why aren’t they doing their job?

According to the monologist Mike Daisey, it’s not only journalists who have missed the real story about the inhumane working conditions at Foxconn. Daisey says that we – Apple employers, investors and users like myself – have all committed the “terrible sin” of evading our “responsibilities.” We all – journalists and Apple fanboys alike – need to “wake up” and “open our eyes”, Daisey says, to the “dehumanizing” consequences of an economy in which all our manufacturing is outsourced to companies like Foxconn.

See the first part of the Keen On… interview with Daisey on Apple’s “terrible sin” in outsourcing its manufacturing to Foxconn.

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Mike Daisey has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by the New York Times for his groundbreaking monologues which weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone, exposing secret histories and unexpected connections. His monologues include last season’s critically acclaimed If You See Something Say Something, the controversial How Theater Failed America, the six-hour epic Great Men of Genius,...

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